Over the last 20 years, developments in tech have resulted in complete genome sequences from hundreds of thousands of organisms across the Earth. With all of this information, the roadblock has become identifying what genes are truly important to for a given system. Dr. Chris Whidbey will present an approach to solving this problem called activity-based protein profiling (ABPP). By combining chemistry and biology, ABPP can fish out the functionally active gene products from a sample. He will discuss his team’s work using ABPP to identify the important genes in human microbiomes and how ABPP can be used to discover new biological tools. Register here.